Is Facebook “Censoring” Conservative News? Facebook VP Replies.

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Here they go again. Following a thinly-sourced report at Gizmodo that Facebook “suppresses” conservative news sites by preventing them from showing up in the Trending News section, the entire right wing universe launched into an orgy of whiny victimhood because they knew this was happening they just knew it! The liberals are oppressing them again!

High-pitched whining instantly began emanating from the upper echelons of conservatism; for example, RNC chairman Reince Priebus screamed FACEBOOK MUST ANSWER!

Then the Republican majority in the Senate joined the Persecuted Victims’ Chorus, as the chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding ANSWERS DAMN IT! THEY WANT ANSWERS!

“Facebook must answer these serious allegations and hold those responsible to account if there has been political bias in the dissemination of trending news,” said Sen. John Thune, the committee’s Republican chairman, in a statement. “Any attempt by a neutral and inclusive social media platform to censor or manipulate political discussion is an abuse of trust and inconsistent with the values of an open Internet.”

Of course, these are the same people who’ve been trying to destroy the “open Internet” by allowing Internet providers to set levels of service and favor websites that pay them for the privilege, but Republican hypocrisy isn’t really news any more, is it?

So is it true? Is the evil liberal Facebook censoring conservative news?

Well, today Tom Stocky, Facebook’s vice president of search, posted an answer to this question — and he flatly denies anything like this is going on.

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But of course, that’s what a sneaky liberal would say, right? This won’t stop the whining; “Facebook censorship” will now be an unquestioned fact to the right wing masses because they really do love playing victim.

It would be interesting to ask these fine upstanding conservatives what the difference is between a Christian bakery that refuses service to gays and a private social network like Facebook. Because there seems to be a bit of a double standard here.

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Tigger2  May 10, 2016 • 12:48:46pm

I don’t know if FaceBook is but I sure censer them off of my page. In other words I block all the stupid Rightwing shit that hits my page.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  May 10, 2016 • 12:49:10pm

This is going to be one of their numerous excuses for getting their clocks cleaned in November: THE LIBRUL MEDIA WUZ STACKED AGAINST US!!!

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Great White Snark  May 10, 2016 • 12:49:41pm

It’s another nothing burger. First, Facebook has no obligation to party neutrality. None, zero, zip, nada. Second, they have every right to ignore sub credible news outlets like Brietbart. Third news editing is highly subjective. A learning curve applies.

If more social media were more careful about credibility, the ‘net would be a much improved space to hang out in.

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Kragar  May 10, 2016 • 12:50:21pm
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The Vicious Babushka  May 10, 2016 • 12:50:58pm

Fat Tub Of Lard Limbaugh Wannabee Is SO MAD BRO

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  May 10, 2016 • 12:52:06pm

It is all political grandstanding, but the GOP senators know that in many people’s minds, FB and Twitter are some sort of public utility. They are a “public space” in the sense that a mall food court is…open to the public but still private property.

“Censorship” refers to a government agency suppressing information, not to a private company choosing and editing its content.

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Belafon  May 10, 2016 • 12:52:35pm

How many tales of woe - “Men in Women’s restrooms”, “Facebook censoring conservatives” - will it take to get people to vote for Trump?

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Teukka  May 10, 2016 • 12:53:13pm

Another reason why “trending” conservative topics may not be as likely to hit “trending” on Facebook.
Have any of you guys ever run conservative websites through website malware scanners?

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The Vicious Babushka  May 10, 2016 • 12:56:43pm

Steve Crowder desperately wishing to be “Trending” or “News”, but is neither. Sad!

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b.d.  May 10, 2016 • 12:57:08pm

A private company can still promote what they want to promote, right?

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Kragar  May 10, 2016 • 12:58:02pm
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Targetpractice  May 10, 2016 • 12:58:18pm

I suppose it’s only a matter of time before the Bernie Bros join in this cause by suggesting that his failure to find ready converts is due to Facebook “censorship.”

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Kragar  May 10, 2016 • 12:58:43pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  May 10, 2016 • 12:58:49pm

re: #11 Kragar

Did conservatives ever consider they reason they weren’t trending on Facebook was because not enough people were interested in them?

no, they were being surpressed by LIBRUL BIASS!!!

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allegro  May 10, 2016 • 12:59:02pm

Since it’s entirely appropriate to avoid promoting hate speech it’s little wonder that most conservative topics are removed from the running.

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nines09  May 10, 2016 • 12:59:42pm

Well they do a horrible job of censoring outright hate site links. I’ve jettisoned a few folks who just kept on linking to sites we are all familiar with. “Dude. If you want to talk to me, or take a picture of this mornings oatmeal, no problem, go for it. But sending me breathless links to Chuck Norris and Ted “Regurgitator” Nugent? Links showing me that the Confederate Rag is just an integral part of some folks heritage? How all of Islam is bad? Planned Parenthood is a……. Please stop.” Then I get another, and it’s buh bye.

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lawhawk  May 10, 2016 • 1:00:32pm

But it wont stop the GOP from playing up this as a huge scandal or impediment, even though the thinly sourced piece allows that other curators of news were pushing conservative news stories and burying liberal ones:

Other former curators interviewed by Gizmodo denied consciously suppressing conservative news, and we were unable to determine if left-wing news topics or sources were similarly suppressed. The conservative curator described the omissions as a function of his colleagues’ judgements; there is no evidence that Facebook management mandated or was even aware of any political bias at work.

Sen. John Thune is ready to investigate Facebook over all this, despite being against the Fairness Doctrine years ago, and thinks this more important than doing work the Senate is required to consider, like holding hearings to advice and consent on Presidential nominations to the US Supreme Court.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  May 10, 2016 • 1:01:03pm

re: #16 nines09

Well they do a horrible job of censoring outright hate site links. I’ve jettisoned a few folks who just kept on linking to sites we are all familiar with. “Dude. If you want to talk to me, or take a picture of this mornings oatmeal, no problem, go for it. But sending me breathless links to Chuck Norris and Ted “Regurgitator” Nugent? Links showing me that the Confederate Rag is just an integral part of some folks heritage? How all of Islam is bad? Planned Parenthood is a……. Please stop.” Then I get another, and it’s buh bye.

I remember finding an old high school buddy on FB, and then, after scrolling through all the pro-gun and anti Obama/Hillary posts on his timeline, decided not to contact him after all…

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nines09  May 10, 2016 • 1:03:29pm

re: #18 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

It’s the down side. I really do have some old friends who became that twisted up bitter old man they used to laugh at. And, they can’t see themselves. I’ve held off contacting some older friends who I haven’t seen in decades, because a part of me says, “let sleeping dogs lie.”

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Romantic Heretic  May 10, 2016 • 1:05:01pm

re: #1 Tigger2

I’ve lost a number of Facebook friends that way.

They post derp. I correct them. If they scream at me, good bye.

Although once one apologized for getting things wrong. They’d posted something that proved, proved the West was selling weapons to Daesh. I pointed out that Daesh is not a nation so no other nation can sell weapons legally to them as there will be no End User Certificate. Also the weapon in the accompanying picture was a Soviet era ATGM, a Sagger. No surprise as Daesh controlled land that had belonged to Syria and Iraq, both of which had been supported by the Soviet Union for decades.

They not only apologized, they deleted the post and thanked me for the facts.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  May 10, 2016 • 1:07:01pm

re: #19 nines09

It’s the down side. I really do have some old friends who became that twisted up bitter old man they used to laugh at. And, they can’t see themselves. I’ve held off contacting some older friends who I haven’t seen in decades, because a part of me says, “let sleeping dogs lie.”

I am sure that a lot of those people who stayed in Northwest Indiana where I grew up have turned out to be the very sort of people that Trump and the GOP appeal to: bitter, alienated and clinging to rose-tinted memories of “better days”…

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TK-421  May 10, 2016 • 1:07:48pm

Let these whiny fucks go start eagleface or reagan book.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  May 10, 2016 • 1:09:42pm

re: #22 TK-421

Let these whiny fucks go start eagleface or reagan book.

Trumpchat

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TK-421  May 10, 2016 • 1:10:56pm

re: #3 Great White Snark

It’s another nothing burger. First, Facebook has no obligation to party neutrality. None, zero, zip, nada. Second, they have every right to ignore sub credible news outlets like Brietbart. Third news editing is highly subjective. A learning curve applies.

If more social media were more careful about credibility, the ‘net would be a much improved space to hang out in.

RWNJ billionaires are funding the RWNJ media machine. Feels like hypocricy.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  May 10, 2016 • 1:12:24pm

We need a Ministry of Fairness and Balance!!!

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The Vicious Babushka  May 10, 2016 • 1:12:43pm

Baby Whiplash thinks that anybody can “responsibly choose” to not be poor

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I Would Prefer Not To  May 10, 2016 • 1:12:51pm

I need a ruling.

Is this an appropriate use of the confederate flag?

Is she going to surrender on her wedding night?

Will the south rise again?

Confederate Flag
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Eclectic Cyborg  May 10, 2016 • 1:13:27pm

Will these morons ever figure out Facebook can suppress WHATEVER THE FUCK IT WANTS TO???

They’re a private company! You have NO Free Speech!

And these people claim to be “Constituitional Scholars”

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nines09  May 10, 2016 • 1:13:27pm

re: #21 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

My “good old days” growing up in inner city Philly were definitely NOT the good old days. I think the correct words would be the” good old insane days with breaks in the insanity”.

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withak  May 10, 2016 • 1:13:41pm

re: #27 I Would Prefer Not To

Dude, NSFW/NSFEyes (only part joking)

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Ian G.  May 10, 2016 • 1:14:15pm

Hey, Facebook can push all the “bombshell” articles about how Hillary ordered the Benghazi attacks the moment FOX News starts accurately documenting the retreat of glaciers around the world and the rise in sea levels since 1950.

You want to make that deal, wingnuts?

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wrenchwench  May 10, 2016 • 1:14:16pm
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Romantic Heretic  May 10, 2016 • 1:14:22pm

re: #15 allegro

Since it’s entirely appropriate to avoid promoting hate speech it’s little wonder that most conservative topics are removed from the running.

That was my first thought when I heard about this.

The Rage Furby might be the most egregious example of ‘conservative news’ but he’s hardly atypical.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 10, 2016 • 1:14:29pm

re: #30 withak

I was about to say the same.

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The Vicious Babushka  May 10, 2016 • 1:15:21pm

re: #27 I Would Prefer Not To

I need a ruling.

Is this an appropriate use of the confederate flag?

Is she going to surrender on her wedding night?

Will the south rise again?

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My son married an Alabama girl. They did not do anything like this at the wedding, I guess because we are Yankees or because we are not unabashed ignorant rednecks?

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 10, 2016 • 1:15:28pm

Weren’t there some RWNJs blabbering a year or so ago about starting up a Conservative version of FB?

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The Vicious Babushka  May 10, 2016 • 1:16:28pm

re: #36 Eclectic Cyborg

Weren’t there some RWNJs blabbering a year or so ago about starting up a Conservative version of FB?

Freedombook

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TK-421  May 10, 2016 • 1:16:48pm

Radio should have rules of fairness but doesn’t.

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Jack Burton  May 10, 2016 • 1:16:49pm

re: #26 The Vicious Babushka

Baby Whiplash thinks that anybody can “responsibly choose” to not be poor

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He’ll also work to remove access to abortion and birth control for the women in these situations, when their availability and usage is among the most “responsible” choices to be made.

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nines09  May 10, 2016 • 1:16:59pm

re: #27 I Would Prefer Not To

Hey, it’s a formal event. Festus and Cletus back there gots CLEAN t shirts on under them coveralls, ya’ll.

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Kryptik  May 10, 2016 • 1:17:02pm

Regardless of how laughable the outrage is, the sheer coordination of it and the fact that actual GOP politicians are pouncing on it to make hay of it is just extremely frustrating. I’ve seen far too many times before when the GOP gets to make fire out of smoke just by screaming a whole fuckton and the media deciding ‘wow, they’re making a lot of noise, it must mean something real!’ Even when the result is a nothingburger, they get to make out like it’s a giant supermassive scandal for at least a decade while other things get sunk into the ether so the media can devote its time to Proof of Liberal Conspiracy #384565

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Ian G.  May 10, 2016 • 1:17:25pm

re: #36 Eclectic Cyborg

Weren’t there some RWNJs blabbering a year or so ago about starting up a Conservative version of FB?

Right after they’re done making a conservative alternative to Starbucks, Target, Disney, PayPal, and every other business that isn’t interested in catering to their views.

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Nyet  May 10, 2016 • 1:17:26pm

re: #27 I Would Prefer Not To

Looks OK as a part of a farce.

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I Would Prefer Not To  May 10, 2016 • 1:17:29pm

re: #37 The Vicious Babushka

Freedombook

Did they use the same blind designer that built the “Drudge Report?”

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The Vicious Babushka  May 10, 2016 • 1:19:07pm

re: #44 I Would Prefer Not To

Did they use the same blind designer that built the “Drudge Report?”

Maybe they used the Free Republic template, but they would have to pay many moneys to JimRob for that awesome web design.

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TK-421  May 10, 2016 • 1:19:34pm

On my drive to work NPR was giving a platform to this as if it was a legitimate complaint.

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Lidane  May 10, 2016 • 1:20:50pm

And here I thought that conservatives hated the Fairness Doctrine, but they want to impose one on Facebook.

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Charles Johnson  May 10, 2016 • 1:20:57pm
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Romantic Heretic  May 10, 2016 • 1:21:19pm

re: #37 The Vicious Babushka

And since it has ‘Freedom’ in its name that site is without a doubt entirely populated by people with distinct and extreme authoritarian opinions.

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Jack Burton  May 10, 2016 • 1:21:56pm

re: #48 Charles Johnson

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Lying for JesusBernie.

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Kryptik  May 10, 2016 • 1:21:58pm

re: #46 TK-421

And this is the shit I can’t help but be worried about. Media yet again treating every GOP grievance like it’s god’s given fact and must be investigated with the fervor of a zealot, while anything from the left side of things is treated like lies from the pit of hell unless verified in triplicate and a doctor’s note.

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Charles Johnson  May 10, 2016 • 1:21:58pm

It would be interesting to ask these fine upstanding conservatives what the difference is between a Christian bakery that refuses service to gays and a private social network like Facebook. Because there seems to be a bit of a double standard here.

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Teukka  May 10, 2016 • 1:22:53pm

So, this came through my feeds:
Global warming milestone about to be passed and there’s no going back

Within the next couple of weeks, a remote part of north-western Tasmania is likely to grab headlines around the world as a major climate change marker is passed.
The aptly named Cape Grim monitoring site jointly run by CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology will witness the first baseline reading of 400 parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, researchers predict.
[…]
“Once it’s over [400 ppm], it won’t go back,” said Paul Fraser, dubbed by CSIRO as the Air Man of Cape Grim, and now a retired CSIRO fellow. “It could be within 10 days.”

Images:
Image: cg1.PNG
Image: spiral_optimized.gif
That second one is terrifying. $0.02 on us breaking the +1.5 °C mark this summer.

I have only one word: FUCK.

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Jebediah, RBG  May 10, 2016 • 1:23:13pm

re: #26 The Vicious Babushka

A few hundred more numb-headed nonsequiturs like that from Best Father Ever Who Would Never Be Blathering Away On Social Media While His Child Is Being Born and I may get my wish that the whole world starts ignoring that smug ignoramus.
Until then, lots of pointing and laughing at him is called for.

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Kryptik  May 10, 2016 • 1:23:58pm

re: #52 Charles Johnson

Facebook and Twitter access is clearly a public utility and should be regulated like one (forget the fact that internet access, according to much of the same people, is NOT and never should be a publicly regulated utility)

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TK-421  May 10, 2016 • 1:24:44pm

re: #48 Charles Johnson

He reminds me of Cabin Boy, where they tow Chris Elliot behind the boat on a raft. He’s out there babbling nonsense.

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Belafon  May 10, 2016 • 1:25:23pm

re: #48 Charles Johnson

Actually we understand that. We really understand that. We understand that you believe in him and his ideals so much that it’s blinded you to the rest of the world. You fail to even comprehend such things as more people voted for Clinton than Sanders.

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Eventual Carrion  May 10, 2016 • 1:25:38pm

re: #21 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I am sure that a lot of those people who stayed in Northwest Indiana where I grew up have turned out to be the very sort of people that Trump and the GOP appeal to: bitter, alienated and clinging to rose-tinted memories of “better days”…

There are many here in rust belt Pennsylvania also that I knew way back when before I left. And they have become the bitter people that I left behind in the late 70’s when the rust was setting in.

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Teukka  May 10, 2016 • 1:25:56pm

re: #53 Teukka

So, this came through my feeds:
Global warming milestone about to be passed and there’s no going back

Images:
Image: cg1.PNG
Image: spiral_optimized.gif
That second one is terrifying. $0.02 on us breaking the +1.5 °C mark this summer.

I have only one word: FUCK.

Check out that second animation.

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Jenner7  May 10, 2016 • 1:27:23pm
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teleskiguy  May 10, 2016 • 1:28:03pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 10, 2016 • 1:28:53pm

re: #48 Charles Johnson

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And Hillary’s supporters actually, you know, vote…

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lawhawk  May 10, 2016 • 1:30:13pm

re: #48 Charles Johnson

Yeah, and then he posted that people were calling him a Bernie bot. Took offense at that - he independently came to that conclusion. Which apparently includes the free blinders to fact that Bernie’s chances of winning the nomination, let alone there being a floor fight are nil.

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lawhawk  May 10, 2016 • 1:30:21pm

Heh:

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  May 10, 2016 • 1:31:34pm

re: #27 I Would Prefer Not To

I need a ruling.

Is this an appropriate use of the confederate flag?

Is she going to surrender on her wedding night?

Will the south rise again?

I see more than a bit of good-natured irony in this…

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lawhawk  May 10, 2016 • 1:32:52pm

re: #65 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Was the gentleman’s name Bill T. Sherman? /

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  May 10, 2016 • 1:33:56pm

re: #66 lawhawk

Was the gentleman’s name Bill T. Sherman? /

And her name is Georgia?

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Nyet  May 10, 2016 • 1:35:10pm

We know you enough to know you believe a lot of BS, Shaun.

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Dr Lizardo  May 10, 2016 • 1:37:24pm

re: #53 Teukka

So, this came through my feeds:
Global warming milestone about to be passed and there’s no going back

Images:
Image: cg1.PNG
Image: spiral_optimized.gif
That second one is terrifying. $0.02 on us breaking the +1.5 °C mark this summer.

I have only one word: FUCK.

The long-range forecast for summer in the Czech Republic is supposed to be the hottest on record, according to the meteorologists here. And last summer was damned hot. Temps get above 35 C here and people start dropping. Air conditioning is pretty much non-existent aside from the most modern office buildings.

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Nyet  May 10, 2016 • 1:37:36pm

Shaun King’s TL:

a Sirota tweet followed by a Commentary critique of Hillary (in which her named is misspelled (at the website!) as “Hilary” in the very title).

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Targetpractice  May 10, 2016 • 1:37:54pm

re: #68 Nyet

We know you enough to know you believe a lot of BS, Shaun.

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Shaun’s gonna have his own padded cell next to Goodman after Philly.

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Nyet  May 10, 2016 • 1:40:29pm

Wearing kid gloves.

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nines09  May 10, 2016 • 1:40:36pm

re: #37 The Vicious Babushka

Freedombook

I bet you get all kinds of fantastic offers once you drop your email account there.

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Targetpractice  May 10, 2016 • 1:41:05pm

re: #72 Nyet

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Wearing kid gloves.

The number of negative ads that Bernie has had to face?

Zero.

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Teukka  May 10, 2016 • 1:41:44pm

re: #69 Dr Lizardo

The long-range forecast for summer in the Czech Republic is supposed to be the hottest on record, according to the meteorologists here. And last summer was damned hot. Temps get above 35 C here and people start dropping. Air conditioning is pretty much non-existent aside from the most modern office buildings.

Here, we’ve been in record-breaking warmth (as in, since records began) since November.
FUCKING EVERY MONTH.
But of course, GlobBULL Warming is a liBULLar conspiracy to destroy the markets!!!! 11thy!
On one hand, I really hope we can cope with the effects. But a (little) part of me wishes for a disaster that will curbstomp the deniers once and for all. >:(

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  May 10, 2016 • 1:42:17pm

re: #69 Dr Lizardo

The long-range forecast for summer in the Czech Republic is supposed to be the hottest on record, according to the meteorologists here. And last summer was damned hot. Temps get above 35 C here and people start dropping. Air conditioning is pretty much non-existent aside from the most modern office buildings.

I am lucky that my girlfriend lives in a first-floor apartment in Frankfurt that stays shady and never got above 25°C during last summer’s heatwave. I live in an old farmhouse with thick walls that also stays shaded for most of the day, and being out in the country, it at least cools off nicely at night.

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EPR-radar  May 10, 2016 • 1:43:13pm

re: #51 Kryptik

And this is the shit I can’t help but be worried about. Media yet again treating every GOP grievance like it’s god’s given fact and must be investigated with the fervor of a zealot, while anything from the left side of things is treated like lies from the pit of hell unless verified in triplicate and a doctor’s note.

Agreed. I’d pay half my life savings to be able to write political headlines at the New York Times for a week.

“Spoiled conservative babies whining again” would be a good start for at least half the headlines.

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Jenner7  May 10, 2016 • 1:43:18pm

Grace and Frankie on Neflix is out with Season 2. So funny. Recommend.

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Kragar  May 10, 2016 • 1:43:25pm

re: #72 Nyet

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EPR-radar  May 10, 2016 • 1:44:31pm

re: #79 Kragar

All that without going negative on Sanders the way the GOP would in a general election.

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Teukka  May 10, 2016 • 1:44:48pm

re: #76 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I am lucky that my girlfriend lives in a first-floor apartment in Frankfurt that stays shady and never got above 25°C during last summer’s heatwave. I live in an old farmhouse with thick walls that also stays shaded for most of the day, and being out in the country, it at least cools off nicely at night.

The windows in my flat are facing West. I regularly experience 27-29 °C during summer, and that is with solar protection film on the windows (I installed it the other year to deal with temps being unbearable in summer).

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Tigger2  May 10, 2016 • 1:48:42pm
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Nyet  May 10, 2016 • 1:50:28pm

re: #82 Tigger2

Of course there had to be a MacDonald connection - eventually.

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Dr Lizardo  May 10, 2016 • 1:50:58pm

re: #76 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I am lucky that my girlfriend lives in a first-floor apartment in Frankfurt that stays shady and never got above 25°C during last summer’s heatwave. I live in an old farmhouse with thick walls that also stays shaded for most of the day, and being out in the country, it at least cools off nicely at night.

Yeah….not so lucky here. I live in a panelák (plattenbau in German) on the top floor and during last summer, it was about 38 C in my apartment. Compounding matters is that fact that my window/balcony faces west.

Yeesh it was bad. I’mma thinking of looking for some kind of portable AC/cooling unit. There’s a store downtown I’ll check out this weekend…..they might have some I can get at “pre-season” prices. Last summer was brutal. One of students ended up hospitalized for a few days; she’s the really active sporty type and she overdid it in the heat. She’s said this year she’s going to be spending more time in the local shopping center if it gets that hot again - at least the shopping centers are air-conditioned. Her apartment is pretty similar to mine, except she’s on the 5th floor, but again, a west-facing window.

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iossarian  May 10, 2016 • 1:52:47pm

re: #84 Dr Lizardo

My continuing top-tip for those people wishing to make a fast buck is to sell air conditioning units in central Europe in the next 10 years.

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Jenner7  May 10, 2016 • 1:53:08pm

Here’s WV’s predictions. Shaun will be so excited.

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Tigger2  May 10, 2016 • 1:54:02pm

re: #86 Jenner7

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Here’s WV’s predictions. Shaun will be so excited.

Not quite a big blowout.

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Thanos  May 10, 2016 • 1:57:41pm

If they are trying to make something trend, they be teh fail, here’s what’s trending atm:
TRENDING
Deadpool: Honest Trailer Released for Film Featuring Ryan Reynolds
Kansas: Detective Dies From Injuries After Being Shot Multiple Times by Suspect, Officials Say
Zorro: Gael García Bernal Cast to Play Lead Role in Upcoming Reboot
Game of Thrones: ‘Oathbreaker’ Episode of Fantasy Drama Airs on HBO
QuikTrip Effect: St. Louis Reserve Bank Identifies a Pattern in Gas Prices in City’s Metro Area
Phil Robertson: ‘Duck Dynasty’ Star Says He Has a ‘Radical Idea’ Regarding Transgender Bathroom Issue
iOS 10: Apple Mobile Operating System Reportedly to Include HomeKit App
League of Legends: Developer Riot Games Bans 3 Teams From Sanctioned Competition
Yoga Hosers: 1st Trailer for Teenage Horror Comedy Film Starring Johnny Depp Released
Snow White: Mother of Boy With Autism Shares Video of Her Son’s Interaction With Character at Disney

Just like any other day, it’s mostly entertainment news and grenade throwing (see the Phil Robertson item.)

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Kragar  May 10, 2016 • 1:59:16pm
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Dr Lizardo  May 10, 2016 • 2:00:15pm

And with that, goodnight, Lizards.

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Jenner7  May 10, 2016 • 2:01:19pm

BBL. Another appointment for my Mom. She fell a month ago and she’s got a compression fracture in her back. She’s been sleeping in a chair. Hope they can get her back in her bed soon.

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Kragar  May 10, 2016 • 2:05:30pm
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Great White Snark  May 10, 2016 • 2:05:36pm

Not the usual headline after we attack an ISIS leader…
Dead ISIS Leader Will Be Remembered as Guy Who Looked Like a Huge Kebab Meat Tower
Read more at littlegreenfootballs.com

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Dave In Austin  May 10, 2016 • 2:09:47pm
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Agnostick  May 10, 2016 • 2:15:42pm

The vast majority of them don’t even qualify as “news”—they’re propaganda memes, circling the vast toilet bowl. They spread from one hack to another, like rabies or gonorrhea. The problem with most of these self-proclaimed “citizen journalists” are that they barely know the meaning of “news,” to begin with.

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Shiplord Kirel  May 10, 2016 • 4:17:41pm

re: #27 I Would Prefer Not To

I need a ruling.

Is this an appropriate use of the confederate flag?

Is she going to surrender on her wedding night?

Will the south rise again?

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I suspect that one has already surrendered, to a good many victors.

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jayjaybear  May 10, 2016 • 8:11:18pm

Shaun King is making me disappointed that I defended him during the whole “Is he really black?” debacle…

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Jebediah, RBG  May 10, 2016 • 8:50:50pm

re: #97 jayjaybear

Well, I would say no one deserved that shit, so I would say no real need to regret it.

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weave  May 11, 2016 • 9:26:41am

re: #47 Lidane

And here I thought that conservatives hated the Fairness Doctrine, but they want to impose one on Facebook.

So much this. Even though it’s bullshit.

I just looked at my Facebook trending topics and it has links for Duck Dynasty idiot giving his expert opinion on bathroom laws, plus even a trending story on how Facebook censors conservative news from Gizmodo. You’d think they’d at least squash that bad news if there was some grand conspiracy.


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